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Fast Forward Vienna Jewish community on lockdown after attack near synagogue kills at least 4
Members of the Viennese Jewish community were told to stay indoors until at least midnight on Tuesday after a shooting spree that began near the Austrian capital’s main synagogue that killed a least four people and injured 15. The authorities said the gunman was a sympathizer of the Islamic State and had been slain by…
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News Iran is using fake Facebook pages to weaken U.S. support for Israel
Facebook removed more than 20 accounts on Facebook and Instagram in October that were secretly controlled by the Iranian government and were aimed at dividing Americans and Israelis around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to weaken support for Israel, according to Facebook and a think tank that studies extremism. The accounts and pages fall under the category…
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Fast Forward Attack ad shows Jewish Alaska Senate candidate Al Gross grasping cash, with Schumer lurking
(JTA) — Al Gross, the insurgent challenger in Alaska’s Senate race, says an ad attacking him just days before votes are tallied “has disgusting anti-Semitic tropes.” The digital ad for Sen. Dan Sullivan, the incumbent Republican, shows Gross holding fanned-out cash, with a pile of money in front of him, evoking the age-old stereotype of…
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Film & TV Remembering Sean Connery with the secret Jewish history of James Bond
James Bond's Jewish roots are evident everywhere from "Dr. No" to "Skyfall"
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Fast Forward GOP candidate who called Hitler ‘the Fuhrer’ attacks opponent as enemy of white men
Republican Madison Cawthorn, who is running for a North Carolina House seat, put up an attack website this week accusing his Jewish opponent Moe Davis of being backed by a supporter who “aims to ruin white males running for office.” Both Cawthorn and Davis are white men, but the website claims that a journalist named…
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Opinion Antisemitic slurs against Soros are not kosher just because a Jew says them
Eric Early, a Republican candidate for Congress in California, Tweeted this weekend about the philanthropist George Soros, a Holocaust survivor — who Early called “a Nazi sympathizer” and “a danger to our nation.” As the Forward, the Anti-Defamation League, and other sources have all ably documented, there is no truth behind the spurious claim that…
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News Debra Messing’s new podcast takes on antisemitism, and Trump
Editor’s Note: The author of this article, a freelance contributor, has a troubling history on Twitter that the editor who handled it was unaware of before publication. We would not have accepted the article had we known of this controversy, and we regret any pain our engagement of this author may have caused. However, the…
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News Neo-Nazis who vandalized a synagogue are recruiting in plain sight
A group of neo-Nazis and domestic terrorists called The Base whose members vandalized a Wisconsin synagogue in 2019 are recruiting on social media platforms, on messaging apps and even in video games, according to new podcast episodes out Thursday from the Southern Poverty Law Center. “It’s all done quite openly,” said the co-host of the…
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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Fast Forward Columbia staff receive texts asking if they’re Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News At Harvard, reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bias reflect campus conflict over Israel
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Opinion Is JB Pritzker’s very Jewish toughness the key to fighting Trump?
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